By Michael Liu
with thanks to Ann Marie Booth and Helen Wong

Wellesley students have won their demand for full time positions for an Asian American and Lationo advisors. Organized by members of Sisters Leading Action for Multiculturalism (SLAM), a recently formed coalition of Asian American and Latino students, the students were on the verge of beginning a hunger strike 9am on Wednesday.

Synopsis: Comrades: A personal documentary about two men who took part in the violent socialist struggles of the mid-20th century. Yook Wong joined the CommunistRevolution that swept through China in 1949. A generation later, Alex Hing founded a group in San Francisco called the Red Guard, modeled after the communist youth group in China. In the end, the revolution didn't turn out the way anyone expected.

Following is a translated and excerpted interview with Mr. Xiang, an immigrant restaurant worker who was injured on the job, conducted by the Boston-based Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) as part of its Immigrant Workers Oral History Project. The interview was conducted by Lydia Lowe and Man Wai Yung.Working ConditionsQ: What was your job and how did you become injured?

Tenants at 26 Elizabeth Street, New York Chinatown, some of whom "hot bed" in rooms, face rent hikes from $800 to as high as $2800. Around Boston Chinatown, a one bedroom condo above a restaurant sells for $300,000, and a market-rate unit in a low-income elderly housing development rents for $1650.

By Mike LiuThe source for this information was published in the Nichi Bei Times. Yukiya Jerry Waki is a staff writer at Nichi Bei Times. Visit the Nichi Bei Times web site for more information on UC Davis.

After months of conflict, 300 Asian-American students and supporters , held a protest in front of the administration building against recent confrontations with white students at the University of California, Davis.

Workers at a factory in American Samoa that made apparel for the J. C. Penney Company and other retailers were often beaten and were provided food so inadequate that some were "walking skeletons," a Labor Department investigation has found.